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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36748	A letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident in England in K. Ch. the Second's reign) which may serve for an answer to the impostures of Sir. Wm. Temple, heretofore ambassador from England at the Hague and at Nimeguen ... : together with some remarks upon his memoirs, to make appear how grosly he is mistaken in the greatest part of the most important matters he relates concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679.; Lettre de Monsieur Du Cros à Mylord **** afin de servir de réponse aux impostures de Monsieur le Chevalier Temple. English	Du Cros, Simon, 17th cent.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2436; ESTC R20449	18,902	38

Execution of the Undertakings of this great Monarch There arrived said Sir W. at that time from England one whose name was de Cros. I shall not stop my Lord upon this Term of Contempt One called it is a very malicious Expression in respect of my self the late King of England himself did me the Honour to treat me in Passports in his Letters in his Commissions which he charged me with It is very impudent and rude to speak so of a Man who is of a good Family who has had the honour of being employed for almost twenty years and whom a great Prince and a King have not disdain'd to use as Councellor of State He was continues Sir W. a French Monk who had lately quitted his Frock for a Petticoat Here is a reproach which ill becomes an Ambassador of a Monarch who is Defender of the Faith and of the Protestant Religion of one who declared so openly at Nimeguen that he would have nothing to do with the Pope's Nuncio I do not know my Lord that it is a disgrace to be a Monk and much less to have been one formerly There are indeed amongst them as well asamongst the rest of Mankind some miserable Wretches of a mean Birth and of a disorderly and infamous Life People of no use without Honour and without Reputation Sir W. T. thought without doubt that I was of that Number but there are likewise several very famous for the Sanctity of their Lives of an extraordinary Merit and of the greatest Quality Sons of Princes and Kings and Kings themselves and Popes But if this sort of Life is not now as formerly it was so certain a Character of a good and honest Man do's Sir W. think he can dishonour me in reproaching me for leaving a Profession which himself thinks so contemptible for a Petticoat It will not be material in this place to say how I was engaged therein in my tender years There is nothing more usual in France Spain and Italy where ancient Houses do sacrifice a good part of their Families in Monasteries 't is a Maxim to say the truth most cruel and horrid Neither will I relate how and after what manner I came out of it however it was not for a Petticoat I have remained several years without so much as having any inclination to it and it hath been apparent that I have had much a-do and was very much unresolved as to this Choice There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the Petticoat that I have taken not to do it It is a Petticoat of a Scotch Stuff and which hath been a greater Ornament and done the Crown of England more good than Sir W. himself if he do not know it the History of England and Scotland in these late Times may inform him I shall enlarge no further that I may not engage my self to publish the Misfortunes and Disorders of Sir W's Family which I suppose would not be like a Gentleman I have no reason that I know of to complain neither of his Lady nor his Son nor of his Daughters Besides had I even cast off the Monk's Habit for a Petticoat I should have done no more than a great many worthy deferving Persons have done yea some of the Pope's Nuncio's Cardinals Bishops Kings and Princesses too who have quitted the Veil for the Breeches whose Posterity I make no question is highly esteemed and reverenced by Sir W. I did so well insinuate my self saith Sir W. into the Court of Sweden that I obtained from thence a Commission to be a kind of an Agent in England That is very dirty I have had the management of Affairs and the Quality of Envoy when Sir W. had no more than that of an Agent or Resident at Brussels I was Envoy at the Court of England before ever I was in Sweden or before ever I had any acquaintance there I went the first time to Sweden just at that time the late King of England sent me into Sweden and Denmark about the beginning of the Year 1676. The Pretence was for to demand the free passage of Letters which the King of Denmark refused for hastening the Congress of Nimeguen in procuring the expedition of Passports requisite to the Ministers of State who were to compose the Assembly and also to urge the Departure of the Embassadors belonging to those two Northern Crowns But now the true Cause was quite another Matter and of greater consequence not for the King of England but indeed for another Potentate That shall be made appear some time or other in my Memoirs Had I been a kind of a Swedish Agent I should not have defended my self in that Point I should have held it as a great piece of Honour since it could not chuse but be very glorious and splendid to have the Affairs of so great a King in such important Conjunctures as those were committed to ones charge and care but at the very time Sir W. speaks of I was dignified with the Quality of Envoy Extraordinary from the Duke of Holstein Gottorv acknowledged and received at the Court of England for such Sir W. knows that very well there was sent him divers Memoirs to Nimeguen whilst the Mediation lasted which I had delivered in at London concerning the re-setling my Master but the Interest and Concerns of this Prince were so indifferent to him that I was fain to beg of my Lord Treasurer to recommend them more particularly to Sir Leoline Jenkyns Moreover you may see Sir W. T. mentions in his Memoirs all the Potentates that had any interest in the Peace of Nimeguen except the Duke of Holstein Gottorp notwithstanding he had two Ministers at the Congress and although France had stipulated for his re-establishment in the second Article or Condition of the Peace such who shall peruse the Memoirs of Sir W. might be apt to think that the Duke of Holstein was reckoned as no body in the World and that he had no part at all in what pass'd in Christendoom from the commencing of the War in 1672 until the conclusion of the Peace 1679 But Thanks be to God Sir W. is not the Steward of Glory and Immortality Sir W. therefore must have often read my Name and Character in the Letters and Orders of the Court and cannot have forgot that he came to render me a Visit at my Lodgings at such time as he by the King's Order was to confer with me upon what account Monsieur Olivencrantz might be obliged to pass from Nimeguen into England That Swedish Embassador lodg'd at that time in my house 'T is true indeed as the Interests of my Master were inseparable from those of Sweden I found my self engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown in whatsoever might depend on my care There was an Envoy extraordinary from Sweden at London and yet for all that the Swedish Ambassadors did me the Honour to maintain a very regular Correspondence

what past there and chiefly in that very affair wherein Monsieur T. was more exercised than in any other Business that he ever undertook But how he could be know it since neither the Duke of York nor my Lord Treasurer not hardly the King himself if we may believe Monsieur T. knew any thing of it And that these Orders were made in one morning in an hours time at the Dutchess of Portsmouths Apartment by the Interception of Monsieur Barillon Observe now if you please my Lord the Malice of Monsieur T. in Relation to Monsieur Williamson on whom he would give in this place the Character of Perfidy as he hath done in diverse other parts of his Memoirs Monsieur T. ought to have had at least some respect for the King whose Orders Monsieur Williamson did Execute I never talkt of it says Monsieur T. to the Secretary of State Williamson as if he would say that he was sufficiently perswaded that Monsieur Williamson was a Man altogether for France and that he was intirely devoted as well as my self to Monsieur Barillon and that he was the Author of this Dispatch Is it not clear that Monsieur T. would make us imagine that Monsieur the Chevalier Williamson Secretary of State the French Ambassador and the Dutchess of Portsmouth promised these Orders As for me tho' I had the Dispatch given me yet he does not accuse me openly in this place of bearing any other part in this Affair than only as a Messenger entrusted with the Conveyance And not only so but I never went to the Dutchess of Portsmouths Lodgings she having an irreconcilable aversion for me and I for her Can there be a greater absurdity than this To endeavour to perswade his Readers that the most important affair of that time on which depended says Monsieur T. The Fate of Christendom was concluded and made up in one hours time in the apartment of the Dutchess of Portsmouth by the Intervention of Monsieur Barillon Monsieur T. is accustomed so little to spare the King's Reputation that he fears not on this occasion to prostitute it in a strange manner He does not only charge him with partiality and connivance in suffering Valentiennes Cambray St. Omer and several other places in Flanders to be taken without Murmur or Opposition But the King of England obliged as much as could be in the Quality of a Mediator and more through the Interest of his Kingdoms to procure the Repose of Christendom yet corrupted by the French Ambassadours and by the Charms of a Mistress Sacrifices all Europe and his own Estate to a Power that is naturally an Enemy to England And this without Ceremony in an hours time without the advice of his Council and hides himself in the Apartment of a Woman as if he was sensible that he went about an action the most unworthy of the Majesty of a Prince and the most opposite to the Felicity of his People that could be For what other Construction can any one make of what Monsieur T. says and can any man conclude otherwise when he reads this worthy passage in his Memoirs Certain it is that this Dispatch was made up by Monsieur Williamson and by the Kings Order And since the King was pleased to avoid opening his mind hereon to Monsi●ur T. giving him no other answer but that I had been more cunning than all of 'em Monsieur T. might possibly Address himself to Monsieur Williamson who it may be might tell him by whose means and how Du Cross had obtained this Dispatch 'T is plain that Monsieur T. despairs of penetrating into this Affair that he knows not where about he is when he speaks of it and that he only seeks to blacken the Reputation of the King and his Ministers If the Peace of Aix la chapelle is his Favourite because he hath the Vanity to believe it to be intirely his own work 't is easie seen that the Peace of Nimiguen is his Aversion because he is ashamed to have had so small a Part in it as he had and that the most glorious part of his Life is not to be sound in that Negotiation I would have this Complaisance for Monsieur T. though he treats me so ill I would at least in some part draw him out of this great incertainty on the subject of the Dispatch which I brought him He is deceived when he imputes this Resolution to the Intrigues and Perswasions of France It was neither managed nor taken nor dispatcht at the Dutchess of Portsmouth's nor was it by the means or intervention of Monsieur Barillon The Ambassadour had no part in it but on the very Instant when the affair was concluding He was not so much as present at the Expedition as he had not been at any time at the Deliberations The Marquiss of Ruvigny the Son carryed the first News to the King his Master the same day that I parted for Nimeguen Monsieur Williamson knew well what was contained in the Dispatch to Monsieur T. in which there was nothing very mysterious But he was never privy to the secret of the Negotiation and tho' he was present when I took my leave of the King in Secretary Coventry's Office yet he was then ignorant of the true subject of my Voyage and perhaps he never knew it The King was not at all precipitate and the affair was not concluded and dispatcht in an hours time It was treated on and deliberately considered near Three weeks There was time given to the Ambassadours of Swedeland to resolve themselves and make their Answer The King's design was doubtless aimed for the good of Europe and the publick tranquility but in truth he had not in his Eye nor did he certainly believe that happy Fate of Christendome for which Monsieur T. labours so earnestly in consort with some particular Persons Enemies to the State Seditious and Disturbers of the Publick Repose But the King said pleasantly adds Monsieur T. that the Rogue Coquin du Cross had outwitted them all If Monsieur T. had not made the King say this and had said it himself I might have applied to him with as much Justice as any man in the World these Verses which I have read somewhere Coquin he calls me with mighty disdain Doubtless I should answer Monsieur T. thus Seek your Coquins elsewhere you 're one your self But the Person of Kings is sacred Besides Can that be an abuse which is spoken pleasantly without the least design perhaps of offending For Coquin is a word which the Late King of England often used when he spoke of People for whom he had notwithstanding Respect and Consideration 'T is true he used the word also very familiarly when he was angry but at such times he spoke with indignation and not pleasantly The Parliament presented an Address to the King as Monsieur T. reports in which they represented the Progress of the French Arms and desired him to stop it before it became more dangerous to